![]() ![]() The analytical angle is best summed up by the author as a model in which “along the way I shared part of myself, my history, and my identity to make social theory concrete.” And, in this way it brought me back to Rosaldo’s work that similarly blew open my thinking years ago. In her essays, Cottom has offered commentary on such wide-ranging topics as beauty culture, the politics of material consumption, Black identity in academia, the elasticity of whiteness, and Black women’s health. To say that I was mind blown by Cottom’s shrewd social analysis is an understatement. In this same way, it seems that Cottom succeeds in inserting her own personal experience to help her (and us as her readers) understand her subject in more authentic ways. ![]() It took several decades for Chicanx scholars to be able to assert our own “positions” and thus in more authentic vantage points in the process. I came to Rosaldo’s research in working through different theoretical models for my own research several decades ago and it helped me to recognize the way in which we, as Chicanx scholars, come to our own research from a different vantage point. ![]()
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